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We talked about link building. We talked about building links fast. But one more factor affects your link building effort - they have to be good links.

To define good links, they have to be:

1. From a website relevant to your topic. If you have a jockey club website and asking for a link from a web designer, it is less valued. If you are a web designer asking for a link from a web host, then it is probably considered a better link.

2. From government and educational websites. It is generally believed that links from .gov or .edu links are better.

3. From a page with less links. Try to ask for a link placement on a page with less than 10 links. And of course, higher pagerank.

4. Key phrase rich. Something you see very often: click here, buy now, www.website.com etc doesn’t help. Search engines wants to know what is on the website that it is linked to, and to do so, they read the anchor text.

Don’t get a software that submits 5,000 links for you in one single click. It is not going to do any good for you. In fact, you site might be banned by search engines if you do so.

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How do you distinguish between blog comments and blog spams? Why does people hate spams so much?

For me, even people want to leave a spam on my blog, I probably won’t delete it straight away. All they want to do is to place a link on my pages. I don’t really mind. As long as the comment is *somehow* relevant, or even if it is just a simple “Thank You”. I would be more than happy to leave it there.

However, for the obvious spam and for those that didn’t even make any effort to write something but just crap, I would delete straight away. I don’t like them. But then, I won’t feel angry, too. Why do we have to be angry about such a small thing.

Everyone is trying to do business here. If you don’t like the comment, just delete it. Don’t make a big fuss about it. People would only feel that you are such a jerk and narrow-minded person. What good is it to make a big fuss about such things? Only downgrading your personality.

For link-builders, I understand that you may need to put some links on blog comments. You just need to really read the post and put something relevant. In this case, you won’t get into any trouble.

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Link building is essential for off-page SEO. Google counts each link as a vote to your website. The more links you have, Google would think your site is more important. The higher the pagerank where your link is placed, the more important the vote.

There are a few ways that link building can be done easily. They are:

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Link Building is a crucial part of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Search engines value links from similar websites to your website having higher importance than other links (eg. directories which thinned out the page rank).

Although you can go by the usual link exchange model, which you can email the webmaster and ask him to place a link, then you link back to him etc. However, this process is very slow.

With the rising popularity of blogs, you can now place links on comments.

Disclaimer: I do not suggest spamming the blogs. I do recommend you placing relevant comments. After all, you get a link to your site. Why not write a decent comment that benefits both the author and yourself?

Blog Commentor can assist you in locating blogs relevant to the theme of your website. One main feature of this software is that you can search blogs by keywords!

Blog Commentor Lite allows you to search Wordpress blogs only. However, if you purchase the full version (I strongly suggest you to) then you can also search TypePad, Nucleus CMS and hosted Wordpress blogs.

To start, click on “Select Blog Type” then choose the “Wordpress” option:

Then a new window would be opened. Click on the “User Info” tab and enter your website’s information. Click “save user info” to save.

Click on the “Blog Search Settings” tab. Enter a keyword you desire and click “find blogs”. As illustrated below, the phrase “web design” has located 79 related blogs. The search results are sorted by page rank.

Click on the “Load Browsers” button and load the first 10 blogs onto the mini browser at the bottom. The user information would be preloaded onto the relevant fields. You only need to enter the comment and you are done.

When you are done with the first 10 blogs, click on the “load browser” button again to load another 10.

Download Blog Commentor Lite here - it is free:
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If you like this software and would like to enhance your link building efficiency, you can purchase the full version of it. Click on “Help” then “purchase full version”. Or you can click on this link to purchase: Buy Blog Commentor Online.

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As promised a long time ago (see my post on 18 Jan about Monetize your blog / website), here comes the first part of the series: Monetize your blog by writing.

I have been using a few of the services below to monetize this blog. Here are the links for them and also my comments towards them.

Smorty - So far I have found this service pays really fast. It probably take a few days to approve your post. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Once approved, money would be transferred to your Paypal account immediately.  Sometimes I got too busy that I have to let these opportunities go; and I don’t really want my blog to be full of sponsored articles anyway. But still, I would say Smorty has brought me some extra cash, fast and easy.

Pay Per Post - this is my favourite program. For a blog like this one (PR2 as of 11/3/08), there would be at least 20 offers for me to choose from every single time I log onto their panel. You just need to make sure the topics are relevant to your blog, and that you must have a non-sponsored post in between the sponsored ones. Oh, maximum 3 posts per day. Payment is prompt - usually arrives within 2 weeks. Highly recommended

Blogvertise - another sponsored blog post program. Their payment is prompt but I don’t always receive offer as often. (Probably because my blog is not having a lot of traffic). When I first started I got only $2 per post, but as time goes by, my offers are having higher and higher values. Little money adds up. If you want to monetize your blog then you surely should sign up.

Sponsored Reviews - Apart from the usual get offer - blog - get paid - blog again model, you can bid for the projects that was advertised. You can set your minimum payment threshold and then start bidding! Easy to use interface. Again, prompt payment.

ReviewMe - Apart from the usual blogging offer, you can put a badge on your website asking advertisers to purchase a blog from you.  John Chow has one that offers reviews of $500.  You set your own price - and of course, you have to know what your reviews are worth before setting, or else nobody would purchase reviews from you.

Blog for Bucks - I think this is a new service. At least I haven’t really heard anyone talking about them before. I didn’t find this service - indeed, they reached me and asked whether I want to write some reviews. Because I was served personally, I got paid really quick. I received the offer on Friday, wrote them all in one go, and they approved them on Saturday. Their payment is on every Monday, and I really got them the next Monday. They even sent me a confirmation of payment. The down side is you don’t really got the chance to choose what to write. But I expressed to them that I don’t want to write about sexual, gambling and religious contents.

Bloggerwave - I am not sure if this service still work? I used to write post for this one, but started a few months ago, I was not able to login at all. I tried to sign up for a new account but never receive any confirmation email. You may want to give it a try. When it was working, the payment was prompt and very fast.

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